poetry prompt: being neutral

You are going to paint a wall. 
Not a large wall: call it six feet wide by eight feet high. 
It is in an area not much troubled by interior traffic. Not a heavily used stairwell, in other words: not an entrance wall or an exit wall.
Its main job—at present—is holding up its part of the ceiling.
Neutral, you think. It should be a neutral color.
(You’re not sure why you think this. Maybe come back to that later.) 
What is a neutral color?
Really—what does that mean?
List eight to ten colors you think fall under the definition of "neutral."
Are they? 
Write a poem about that.

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Catherine Rockwood (she/they) lives in Massachusetts with their unruly family. Two of Catherine’s poetry chapbooks, Endeavors to Obtain Perpetual Motion and And We Are Far From Shore, are available from the Ethel Zine Press. Her third chapbook, Dogwitch, is available from Bottlecap Press.